Epic Movie

01-27-2007, 02:42 PM

Adam and I just got home from watching "Epic Movie" at the theater. We both like those stupid, funny spoof movies and this one was in the same vein. What I enjoyed a lot that it was mostly a spoof of "Narnia," (here called "Gnarnia" with "Captain Jack Swallows" showing up in a few scenes! It's pretty funny.

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I was disappointed with Date Movie last year. The spoof formula works better with the Scary Movie series because they try to be serious but aren't. On the other hand Date Movie was spoofing stuff that was already funny in the originals (such as Meet the Parents/Fockers) and wasn't that funny. Plus the makers of the movie thought it would be hilarios by putting in a cameo of Napoleon Dynamite or Owen Wilson's charcter from Wedding Crashers and it turned out to be laughless. I noticed Epic Movie is made by the same people that made Date Movie, so i don't know if I'll go see this one. I like spoofs, but Date movie was just boring.

One thing I noticed is that some of the actors are spoofing their own movies, such as Kal Penn who was in Superman, and the guy from Nacho Libre.

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My opinion, while funny, it was also a bit awkwardly structured at several points. So, not as good of a spoof movie as Police Squad, The Naked Gun, Scary Movie, or even Hot Shots. And especially not as good as any Mel Brooks film.